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Tuesday, June 03, 2003 7:17:07 PM
It's fair to challenge any well known QCOM fan like Rox who tries to make assertions about the technology or the standards process precisely because they have previously demonstrated patterns of inside the box thinking that have often lead to dead-end discussions in the past.
For example, Rox's statement that IDCC owns a very small part of the air interface is flimsy, unsupported and flies in the face of IDCC's claim in its sworn filings that more than 600 out of their 1,000+ contributions to the 3G standard (5 modes) have been accepted. Clearly, not even IDCC is claiming 100% of the standards, right? But they're not conceding that they have only a very small part either.
You are also right that there are a lot of unknowables in the standards process. Each vendor can still go in so many different technical directions even after the standard is set in stone. That's why I'm skeptical about Rox's approach and its predictable conclusions. How can anybody look at the technical specs without relating it to the multi-million dollar business decisions that have already been made about IDCC's CDMA patent portfolio? Keep in mind that IDCC's CDMA patents are built on the very solid foundations of the Schilling patents and they continue to invest heavily in it so that it can keep pace with Moore's Law.
Below is another good example of this type of inside the box thinking. This is a post by a certain BRational who was then considering a paired trade -- going long QCOM while going short IDCC at the same time -- when IDCC was below $20 and QCOM was near $40. Ouch!
I conclude that either IDCC has gotten ahead of itself and of (its best case) “comparables”, or that QCOM is way below where it should be, or both. My conclusion would be that this seems like a good time to sell one and buy the other—there is even a nice gap between 14 and 17 in IDCC’s recent climb.
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg.gsp?msgid=18912810
IDCC is a turn-around story. QCOM is a growth and established success story: they have a top notch RF team, they have taken ownership stakes in major internet companies, they have an established PC software arm, an industry leading chip unit, and so much more. IDCC is nothing like QCOM. Comparing the two does nothing to evaluate the recent stock surge of IDCC. Although it does provide for some good message board fodder
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/stocktalk/msg_multireplies.gsp?msgid=18912810
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